ASSUMPTIONS CHALLENGED

Tim Blair

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Tuesday,
November,
27,
2012,(12:53pm)

The New Inquiry has plenty to thrill the pretentious leftwing radical. And so one contributor tells us that she went to Casablanca to work on her “dissertation on Moroccan hip hop and neoliberalisation,” before mulling the inevitable question, “Is rap the battleground between Muslims?”

The contibutor went to Morocco to work on dissertation on Moroccan hip hop and neoliberalisation ...” ? Many questions spring from this statement: 1) Morocco has hip hop, 2) what kind of degree is she working on, 3) what university gives a degree for whatever it is, 4) what is “neoliberalisation”. Whatever neoliberalisation is, I have a feeling I’m against it. Who has the money to travel to a foreign destination to study such stuff ... bet her parents.

“The dog can open the front gate unassisted, just like a person.” Except in Yates’ story, the dog is played by Jay-Z, the person by rich white folks and white truffles are the front gate.

What seems to be an attempt to slap the face of rich white society with a truffle comes across as another patroning “who’s a clever black man” story so loved by today’s Left.

Now now DoR some of their best friends are “black men” or in new speak I think that is “incompetent men”. Occasionally they really get multi-culti and will even speak to a Jew - so long as he or she is not from naughty Israel because they import chocolate for their army. L’chaim

sdog replied to David
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:59am)

“What seems to be an attempt to slap the face of rich white society with a truffle comes across as another patronizing ‘who’s a clever black man’ story so loved by today’s Left.”

Black men have been living decadent lives for just as long as white men have. You think the scores of African dictators over the decades have subsisted on rice and beans while riding in their chauffeur-driven Mercedes or private jets?